BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



501 



brownish black, some of the feathers of the breast with exposed portion 

 ahnost wholly pale buff or biiffy white; length (skins), 187-205 

 (198); wing, 131-138 (134); tail, 102-105.5 (104.2); exposed culmen, 

 13.5-14.5 (13.8); tarsus, 15-16 (15.4); middle toe, 14.5-15 (14.8).° 



Islands of Curasao and Bonaire, Dutch West Indies; Margarita 

 Island, Venezuela?; coast of Venezuela (Maripa, Rio Caura; Encon- 

 trados)?. 



Stenopsis cayennensis? (not Caprimulgus cayennensis Gmelin) Berlepsch, Journ. 



fur Orn., 1892, 87 (Curasao). 

 Stenopsis cayennensis Hartert, Ibi?, 1893, 319 (Curasao; crit.; habits), 328 



(Bonaire); Novit. Zool., ix, 1902, 303 (Bonaire; Curafao). — Clark (A. H.), 



Auk, xix, 1902, 263 (Margarita I.).— Cory, Pub. 137, Field Mus. N. H., 1909, 



245 (Margarita I.). 

 S[tenopsis'\ cayennensis Hartert, Tierreich, Podarg., Caprim., Macropt., 1897, 35, 



part. 

 [Stenopsis] cayennenis Sharps, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 83, part (Curasao; Venezuela?). 

 (?) Stenopsis cayennensis Berlepsch and Hartert, Novit. Zool., ix, 1902, 89 



(Altagracia and Quiribana de Caicara, Venezuela; crit.). 



o- Three specimens. 



The adult male from Pvio Caura, Venezuela, agrees with tj-pical S. c. insularis in 

 pure whiteness of the under parts, but is slightly deeper grayish above. That from 

 Margarita Island is in bad condition, but seems to agree in coloration with Curasao 

 examples. 



